
Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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About This Book
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. Hawthorne was encouraged by friend Horatio Bridge to collect these previously anonymous stories; Bridge offered $250 to cover the risk of the publication. Many had been published in The Token, edited by Samuel Griswold Goodrich. When the works became p...
Chapters (21)
- TWICE-TOLD TALES
- FROM TWICE-TOLD TALES
- THE GRAY CHAMPION
- THE WEDDING KNELL
- THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL A PARABLE[1]
- THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT
- THE GENTLE BOY
- MR. HIGGINBOTHAM'S CATASTROPHE
- WAKEFIELD
- THE GREAT CARBUNCLE[1]
- DAVID SWAN
- THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS
- DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT
- LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE
- LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE
- LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE
- LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE
- THE AMBITIOUS GUEST
- PETER GOLDTHWAITE'S TREASURE
- THE SHAKER BRIDAL
- ENDICOTT AND THE RED CROSS
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